gossamer
February 12th, 2013, 06:58 PM
I was pretty shocked to see this article recommended to me elsewhere online today:
On Pins and Needles: Stylist Turns Ancient Hairdo Debate on Its Head (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324900204578286272195339456.html)J ust one quotation even though there's a lot of it I really love:
In 2007, she sent her findings to the Journal of Roman Archaeology. "It's amazing how much chutzpah you have when you have no idea what you're doing," she says. "I don't write scholarly material. I'm a hairdresser."
John Humphrey, the journal's editor, was intrigued. "I could tell even from the first version that it was a very serious piece of experimental archaeology which no scholar who was not a hairdresser—in other words, no scholar—would have been able to write," he says.
So cool!
On Pins and Needles: Stylist Turns Ancient Hairdo Debate on Its Head (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324900204578286272195339456.html)J ust one quotation even though there's a lot of it I really love:
In 2007, she sent her findings to the Journal of Roman Archaeology. "It's amazing how much chutzpah you have when you have no idea what you're doing," she says. "I don't write scholarly material. I'm a hairdresser."
John Humphrey, the journal's editor, was intrigued. "I could tell even from the first version that it was a very serious piece of experimental archaeology which no scholar who was not a hairdresser—in other words, no scholar—would have been able to write," he says.
So cool!